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Fancy building myself a franken P bass.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F153544967873

Some cheap, reasonable bodies out there. Chances of a standard Fender/Squier/Warmoth neck fitting?

I was thinking of getting a body, painting and if it looked pretty, building up into a bass and didn't fancy investing the time if the end result might not fit or intonate properly...

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The body looks to be a fair approximation of a P bass body. If the body sent is made from the same wood as that in the photo, it isn't Maple as listed in the description, (a solid maple body would be unlikely to weigh only less than 3lbs. as listed) it looks like paulownia, also called 'Empress Wood', a light fast growing wood with a tone described by some as similar to ash. G&L make some of the bodies for their Tribute models from it. 

The listed measurements of 50cm (20") - 33cm (13.2") - 4cm (1.6") are pretty close to the dimensions of a USA Fender body, usually  52.5cm (21") - 32.5cm (13") - 4.3cm (1.75").  The body being a bit short might be a problem, though the numbers quoted in offers like this aren't always correct. Often neck pockets on replacement bodies are a bit tight or loose, but that can apply to better quality ones at many times the price, as well as cheap Asian ones....

Unless someone posts with actual experience of having used one of these bodies, it's a bit of a gamble, though they're cheap may well be quite serviceable. Good luck if you decide to give one a go.

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On 28/08/2019 at 00:01, landwomble said:

Fancy building myself a franken P bass.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F153544967873

Some cheap, reasonable bodies out there. Chances of a standard Fender/Squier/Warmoth neck fitting?

I was thinking of getting a body, painting and if it looked pretty, building up into a bass and didn't fancy investing the time if the end result might not fit or intonate properly...

I've used one, albeit a jazz bass body and it was  a total swine to grain-fill. I finished it out of dogged determination but if i'd had any sense I'd have burned it.

See my Olympic White jazz with a difference build diary thread.

As an aside, the back jazz pup rout was wrong, having the size of a bridge pup, but the lug placement of a neck pup. The jury is out on the neck rout as I've not yet found time to fix the neck issue 

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